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The Reece-Fish is a variable choke, [citation needed] side- or downdraft design, with few moving parts to wear or adjust. To change from side-draft to downdraft, the installer simply rotates the float chamber to suit the carburetor orientation.
Holbay Engineering was a small family run British engineering company specializing in engine modifications and race tuning. Although they enjoyed much success during the 1960s and 1970s with their competition race engines, they are best remembered today for their work on the Rootes 1725cc OHV engines as used in the Hillman Hunter GLS and Sunbeam Rapier H120.
The Hillman Imp is a small economy car that was made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976. Revealed on 3 May 1963, [6] after much advance publicity, it was the first British mass-produced car with the engine block and cylinder head cast in aluminium.
Adrian Evans (d. 1992), a structural engineer and the car's designer, built a series of cars called Davrian from 1965, based on components from the Hillman Imp, including the front and rear suspension, the 875 or 998 cc (53.4 or 60.9 cu in) [1] aluminium alloy Hillman Imp engine which was Coventry Climax-based [2] and the Imp transaxle.
The Arrow range was conceived in 1962. Following the Hillman Imp, consideration was given to developing a larger rear-engined car, but this concept was dismissed, and the engineering settled on for the new car was more conventional and closer to the layout of the existing Audax series (which included the previous Hillman Minx).
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The Imp was featured in the books "The Worst Cars Ever Sold" by Giles Chapman [10] and "Naff Motors: 101 Automotive Lemons" by Tony Davis. [ 11 ] It was named among " The Five Worst English Cars of All Time" in a 2012 article on askaprice.com [ 36 ] and ranked the 5th worst British car in a 2008 survey of 4,000 motorists by internet magazine ...
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